Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the lightning lap done by a collection of journalists with the best time being published for each car? I don't remember them using any pros.
That would be more disturbing if it becomes the model for future product introductions than it is for being the way a single model met the press.
I think I have seen MT being referenced in some way in magazines not on your list before.
I don't know if I've seen that GT500 video, and if you've got a link to the discrediting I'd like to see what the fuss is about. Nurburgring discussion has died down, but a single topic isn't going to stay in the limelight forever. More recently, discussion seems to have settled into the usual topics for any given model - wheels, tires, I just got mine, etc., and I think most folks just aren't as concerned about the 'Ring time any more. Nothing they can do about that now anyway, and they won't be concerned with that at all, once they're driving their own Z at whatever tracks.
I suppose you could claim it as a 'win', but from the amount of forum traffic in the 'Motorsports' section I don't think there are too many W2W folks involved. The new "Road Course/Track and Autocross" section (split off from the drag racing stuff, finally) has mostly attracted autocrossers and track day people. Time will tell where the SCCA will class the Z/28 for Solo (or even if they will class it anywhere), but the average track day enthusiast isn't going to care about the car's lack of class legality in a race series he isn't interested in competing in. Same thing as your average Mustang enthusiast making mods to his street driven car not giving a fig where SCCA's Solo would then reclassify it, just on a different level.
CD has published many road course times that were slow when compared to professional drivers and yet they dont with the Z28?
Why does it matter? We are talking about the big difference in times. CD times compared with times from professional drivers in different days? Yes they have published these slower times before.
Norm isn't an idiot bud, and as far as I can see, the z28 won't be in the SCCA due to its standard equipment. It is true, NASA has pre-approved the z28 for ST3. However, you need to take note at the other competitors that had CC brakes standard. Again, you guys are trying to shoehorn this car into a class just for the same of saying "yes it is" and have no regard for people that are considering competition. Please don't do that... The Z06 is not permitted to run CC brakes in that class, nor any other class on Earth. I highly doubt they will permit the z28 to register if other cars in the class were made to strip.
Again, what's "fabricated" by Pratt on the Z28 that other teams in CTSCC don't do on any other car? Other than the bolt-on carbon hood, door panels and trunklid -which we've discussed many times.
Care to elaborate on what your degrees are and how you use them in your motorsports efforts?
Pratt Miller have replaced all the exterior panels with Carbon Fiber. The list of modifications mirror the outgoing GS.R. That is just waaaaaaay to many changes for that class. The same stunt is pulled in GTS with the ZL1. It is pretty clear in the Rulebook, the car was delivered by Chevrolet (as a base Camaro) and built by Pratt Miller. I will post the changes the Riley car had later.
Sorry man, these guys really want to prove the z28's relevance. I personally won't tolerate misleading shills, regardless of their insults. When we see people upset, it's because we are getting to close to truth.
Pill, who cares what the Z28 is legal for or not? Who cares what the Boss is legal to race or not?
